NEW YORK -- In his first public comments since Thursday's federal indictments were announced involving Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups, NBA commissioner Adam Silver said he was "deeply disturbed" by the allegations that were presented by federal authorities.

"My initial reaction was I was deeply disturbed," Silver said in an interview with Amazon at the start of the second quarter of the game between the New York Knicks and Boston Celtics at Madison Square Garden. "There's nothing more important to the league and its fans than the integrity of the competition.

"And so I had a pit in my stomach. It was very upsetting."

Silver also explained the sequence of events that led to the NBA investigating "aberrational behavior" around a g

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